Duke of Cornwall

In the wake of Lear's abdication, the Duke of Cornwall is the legitimate, formally sanctioned ruler of half the kingdom, and yet the play stages and clearly justifies his assassination.

Shakespeare and the Uses of Power Greenblatt, Stephen 2007

Jonathan Morcom, operations director at the Duke of Cornwall hotel in Plymouth, is one.

Apprentices … you are needed at your workstation 2011

Surfing Tommies, first produced in the south-west in 2009, is poet and playwright Alan M Kent's award-winning drama about three Cornish tin miners who, fuelled by the local reverend's promise of glory to those who join the war effort, swap the mines for the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.

This week's new theatre 2011

She spent the next nine months in the Duke of Cornwall spinal unit in Salisbury.

People in hospital suffer enough, so why are we feeding them bad food? Rosie Boycott 2010

The Duchess of Cornwall, because Charles is also the Duke of Cornwall.

CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2005 2005

He is not -- he is the Duke of Cornwall, but that is a secondary title.

CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2004 2004

Edmund meanwhile ingratiates himself with the Duke of Cornwall by turning over to that powerful lord information of Gloucester's secret communications with King Lear and the French forces that have landed in England to help the old king; since this is technically treason, Gloucester's eyes are put out.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

The Duke of Cornwall and York, who later became King George V, laid the foundation stone of the present building in 1901.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

In the leading female rôle—as the desirable young noblewoman, Lady Amelia, whose hand is sought in marriage by a variety of suitors, including the Duke of Cornwall—was the gifted and much-beloved actress Eliza Poe, who, less than four months earlier, had served as the dear, maternal agent of my own nativity.

Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

It must have been a paradise for one fisherman at any rate, as he held his tenure on condition that he provided a boat and net in case the Duke of Cornwall, its owner, should ever come to fish there; so we concluded that if the Duke never came, the tenant would have all the fish at his own disposal.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor